@reedy_moss@ChrisRGun Most people agree in that they are not going to vandalize a statue, even if they happen to think it’s of a miserable prick and the world would be better without it.
Is an objectively terrible thing to have in society. All I’m doing is pointing that out, and you want to accept it
@reedy_moss@ChrisRGun Then pick a controversial speaker and guard the nearby roof tops of everyone of their appearances, lol.
The vast majority does not agree on assassinations against political speech. The reaction after Kirk’s assassination proved that.
@reedy_moss@ChrisRGun You’re not that good at conceptualizing what ought to be, are you?
If the vast majority agreed not to vandalize something then we would not have to guard it.
If the vast majority agreed to protect speech then we would not have to worry about assassinations.
@reedy_moss@ChrisRGun My observation is just like his. “All statues get vandalized” is another objectively terrible observation.
Whatever you believe Charlie was, he didn’t deserve to be murdered for his speech. And whatever your views on his statue are, it does not excuse the vandalism.
@reedy_moss@ChrisRGun It is objectively a terrible thing ta accept that we are at a point where politics has divided us so much that a statue of someone murdered for speech would immediately be vandalized.
@JoshuaBarzon@BrysonGray Can you explain the context of Hebrews 6? Seems pretty clear that the author is speaking directly about the problems of apostates.
Never forget that in Charlottesville VA the left took down a magnificent statue of lewis and Clark because it also had Sacagawea in front of them kneeling down and tracking trails. This was deemed too “subservient.”
God really said, “Since you won’t humble yourself let me use the guy you called a degenerate crackhead to expose every ounce of pride in this room real quick.”🤣💀
You cannot tell me the Lord doesn’t have a sense of humor!
That coyote really is waiting for its hunting partner. Coyotes catch 34% more ground squirrels when they hunt with a badger than when they hunt alone. Three years of fieldwork in Wyoming during the 1980s, tracking pairs across the National Elk Refuge, pinned down that number.
The partnership works because each animal does what the other can't. Coyotes are fast above ground but useless at digging. Badgers are built for digging, with claws nearly two inches long. A research team at the University of Utah once filmed a single badger burying a 50-pound calf carcass, three times its own body weight, in five days flat. When they team up, the badger goes underground after prairie dogs and ground squirrels hiding in their burrows. Anything that bolts out a back exit runs straight into the coyote. Anything that stays below ground gets caught by the badger.
Both animals come out ahead on energy. Badgers don't have to keep popping back up to check other burrow exits, because the coyote is already watching them. They resurface 60% less often than badgers hunting alone. Coyotes spend less time chasing. Researchers have watched the same pairs hunt together for weeks, touch noses, even sleep side by side. They seem to know each other.
About 90% of these hunts are one coyote and one badger. 9% feature two coyotes joining a badger, and 1% pull in three coyotes alongside a single badger. You almost never see two badgers together on a hunt, since badgers prefer to work alone.
Indigenous tribes documented this centuries before science caught on. The Navajo, Crow, Plains, and Chinook all have stories where badger and coyote appear together as friends, neighbors, or rivals. The word "coyote" itself comes from the Aztec coyotl, meaning trickster.
Emma Balunek, a graduate student at the University of Nebraska, has 50 trail cameras running right now across five sites in South Dakota, Wyoming, New Mexico, and Colorado. She's noticed something the 1980s Wyoming study didn't catch. Badgers normally hunt at dawn, dusk, or after dark, but they switch to daytime when they're with a coyote. They're rescheduling their working hours to match their partner.
The friendship has a season. It dissolves in winter, when hibernating prey is easy enough for badgers to dig up alone. Sometimes the same pair that hunted together all summer ends up preying on each other by winter.
The goal is not to save, because we do not possess the power of salvation. The goal is to be as close to God’s will as possible so that you can see God’s works in suffering.
John 9:1-5
You can't save everyone.
You can guide. You can warn. You can rebuke in good faith.
But sometimes, a brother/sister's life-altering mistakes have to be made, and the consequences suffered, as only suffering will breed the necessary contrition.